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- noun Plural form of
cayuca .
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Examples
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A version of the hand carved cayucas they used along the waterways is still used today by Chontal fishermen.
The Cuisine of Tabasco: Heartland Of Pre-Hispanic Cooking 2004
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A version of the hand carved cayucas they used along the waterways is still used today by Chontal fishermen.
The Cuisine of Tabasco: Heartland Of Pre-Hispanic Cooking 2004
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A version of the hand carved cayucas they used along the waterways is still used today by Chontal fishermen.
The Cuisine of Tabasco: Heartland Of Pre-Hispanic Cooking 2004
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Soon after leaving Gatun we had passed a couple of jungle families on their way to market in their cayucas laden with mounds of produce, -- plump mangoes with a maidenly blush on either cheek, fat yellow bananas, grass-green plantains, a duck or a chicken standing tied by one leg on top of it all and gazing complacently around at the scene with the air of an experienced tourist.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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By day one could watch the growth of the great locks, the gradual drowning of little green, new-made islands beneath the muddy still waters of Gatun Lake, tramp out along jungle-flanked country roads, through the Mindi hills, or down below the old railroad to where the cayucas that floated down the
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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On the river were many boats, mostly lanchas and occasional paddled dugout canoes called cayucas.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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